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They did it by being good and charming in that order.

When you use standard weight you assume some will weigh more and some less. If 200 Sumo wrestlers go together to a convention on an a/c, that could cause a dangerous situation. Especially if they all got up at once to go to the toilet at the back of the plane. Even large airliners are quite sensitive to trim changes. One airline pilot told me when it was quiet back in the cabin he knew exactly when a one stewardess was walking up to the cockpit- the automatic trim adjuster slowly adjusted for the change in weight.

When I got my commercial and instructor rating grade 3 instructors were getting less than a cleaner. Flying up north required you to be more a stunt man than a pilot. On top of that I could not fly at night-have your eyes checked for colour vision. My brother in law, working in the airlines in Dubai, left because of poor working conditions. I saw an Aircrash Investigation show were part of the cause of a big accident was the pilot could not afford a hotel and was intermittantly sleeping somewere on a couch. I don't want to sound like a party poop, but it's not all glamour and very espensive now. I started off at Rex Aviation in Brisbane paying $35 per hour with instructor and no landing fees and no examination fees.

Someone [you] can lift one wing up while some innocent bystander puts the stuff in your tyre. [ok for light planes] To do the job alone you would have to make up a small special purpose jack from a car or whatever. I think Id be doing that for my next a/c. A blown or slow leaking tyre is so easy to get and big job to get the wheel off in some planes. I know one guy who spent hours trying to get a screw out to release his brake assembly so he could put on a new tyre.. Gave up and went on a 8000 mile trip as is.

Super Cheap auto, Repco, etc sell it-been around as long as forever. Out of balance would occur more if you put a lot in a large dia tyre. It's really designed to be used after you have the puncture and then fix later. As indicated in a previous post pilots use it before the puncture and it prevents air from leaking out. For a small a/c tyre, thats what I would do now that it was mentioned. To store it I would look around for a sealable metal screw on cannister from Coles, Red Dot, etc to put it in and then into your cockpit. If it releases foam, then the cannister will collect it all.

Another happy customer:cheezy grin:

Thanks Bacon, I'll get new rods. I am not a beginner but I am beginning. Used to fly in Kingaroy near you. Brought a Pawnee for 100 hourly to Dalby once. Good runways around there-probably funded by Bejelke Peterson way back. He used to take unofficial control of the govert jet that flew him around. Had a prang once. Then there was the cerfew he imposed in Qld-no public gatherings more than so many people. All he had to do is grow a moustach and yell Hio Hitler-which he probably practiced a lot.

You won't hear the end of it now. How is the flying in Siberia?

I read somewhere the oxide from welding galvanized iron is good for you and even used for medical purposes-only that it is "irritating". Maybe I read too much

The EGT gives you faster indication of overheating. The two stroke is interesting in this regard. If you pull the power back such as in the circuit for landing, the EGT will shoot up past the red line. Try it. I was told that will destroy your engine and so did very shallow approaches with very long finals [hardly glide angle distance to the airfield] Also, I read that the volume of exhaust was small with low power and the elevated EGT would not destroy the engine. By then I sold the a/c and moved to another one. Wonder what is the real story.

Maybe the snake and the overheating were two separate events.

Did a google search on "plastic bag crashes aircraft" There has been a major crash of an a/c as a result of plastic bags. In fact a small piece of tape brought down an airliner. It covered the static vent and all the instruments went wild at night IFR. The guy who washed the plane forgot to take it off and the preflight check did not reveal it.

Thanks 80knots. [do you mean 5% to go] This thread has had many posts on what to look out for in that 15 min, or less for a commercial pilot. Also we've heard of a perpetual cat with buttered toast tied to it's back and a guy who claimed to be pregnant to a dinasaur. This would make the old Ed Sullivan show look like a class lesson on the sex life of a guppy.

The strongest crosswind I've landed in is 25-30 kts, but it was in a plane with a high wing loading. Would't do it in a grasshopper. Looks like he impressed his girl-she knew all about crosswinds

You could make some carpet protected clamp that latches say on a landing gear strut of that particular a/c. Check out the owner with a big sob story about how hard it is to move his plane and "you don't want to damage his plane trying....".

I have another one which is just a simple flat tyre-but a big nusance especially if you are miles from help. I have thought of taking along some canned goop that goes into your tyre and seals up small leaks. But you would have to take the weight of the a/c off the tyre before it will go in. It will fill up the tyre with enough pressure to "get you home". Don't store it in your cockpit in case it thinks you have a flat tyre when you're cruising at 5000'. Hope this keeps the ideas coming in, besides I'd like to see 2000 hits on this thread.

Not good-I am now getting reputation as a sane careful pilot.

If you have kids around, good time to put them to bed:naughty:

I think I've been looking for the wrong kind of plane. The guy who went across the English Channel was a lightweight athlete and he was knackered at the end of his trip. However if the fabric wing covering was actually a solar cell.......

Who says?

You can buy or make some electrically operated trolly thing that moves the a/c around. A Commanche parked in front of my a/c which I had to move on my own. Once you have moved the monster a few times you can do it blindfolded. [not recommended]

I'am getting one for my next a/c. I always get white a/c and against a white sky you are invisible [no, I don't get a commission]

Funny how we are willing to diet to get into a plane but not for health concerns.

The minimum on a leakdown test is considered 60 over 80 which, without doing a lot of math calculations, is a fair bit of leakage. If you get 80 over 80 then the leakage of the engine is equal or less than the leakage through the instrument's constricter. Only as this significant leakage increases does your needle start to move on your right hand guage.

Buy a small plane you really like but can't fit into. I just barely fit into a Hummel Bird lengthwise but some weight loss would even shorten that distance.